Sunday, April 04, 2010

Proposal: Proposal Honor

If the Proposal titled “Dwarven Honor” failed, this Proposal does nothing.

Otherwise, reword the subrule “Legislation” of the Rule â€œHonorâ€ to:

When a Proposal is Enacted, the submitter gains 15 Honor.

Keba gains 15 Honor instead of “2 Honor for each vote cast in favor of the proposal in addition to the submitterâ€™s vote.” for this Proposal.

I thought about the Proposal Honor thing again. There are some more problems. For example: A really good Proposal could reach Quorum. If an Admin enact this one then, the submitter maybe gains less Honor than he would gain, if the Admins wait a few hours. Additionally, whatâ€™s about deferential votes? etc…

Way back when we gave out gold* for proposals that passed, we had the option to label proposals as “trivial” reducing the amount of gold you’d get from it, but not taking up one of your main proposal slots. I think you had two slots and an extra slot for a trivial? I don’t really remember. If you want to repropose rewards for proposals’ passing, you may want something along those lines.

I’ll still vote against it, but that may swing enough votes to get it through.

*Actual, real-world gold, mind you. We had to stop eventually because the shipping costs back and forth across the Atlantic were threatening to bankrupt the game, but I’m pretty sure Kevan made enough that’s he’s still paying for Urban Dead’s bandwidth in BN gold.

"Nomic is a game in which changing the rules is a move. In that respect it differs from almost every other game. The primary activity of Nomic is proposing changes in the rules, debating the wisdom of changing them in that way, voting on the changes, deciding what can and cannot be done afterwards, and doing it. Even this core of the game, of course, can be changed."